Cueva people

Cueva was the name assigned by Spanish colonists to various indigenous populations they encountered in Eastern Panama. Although it has been used variously to describe a specific ethnicity, many scholars believe that the peoples who used the Cueva language belonged to multiple ethnolinguistic groups, and that this language was in fact a lingua franca.

See also

• Cueva language
• Kuna

References

Further reading

• Whitehead, Neil L. (1999). The crises and transformations of invaded societies: The Caribbean (1492–1580). In F. Salomon & S. B. Schwartz (Eds.), The Cambridge history of the native peoples of South America: South America (Vol. 3, Pt. 1, pp. 864–903). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.